Kleftiko - Cypriot Lamb with Potatoes
⏱️ Prep: 30 min🍳 Cook: 240 min
Ingredients
| 1 кг | lamb meat |
| 1 глава | garlic |
| 100 г | kefalotyri cheese (or plain kashkaval) |
| 15 броя | olives, pitted |
| 1 кг | small new potatoes |
| 2 | roasted and peeled peppers |
| 5 сл | olive oil |
| 2 сл | parsley |
| 2 сл | oregano |
| 2 сл | rosemary |
| 1 сл | ground cumin |
| — | juice of 1 lemon |
| — | salt |
| — | black pepper |
Instructions
Lard the lamb with the garlic cloves by making small cuts and inserting the garlic into them. Then marinate the meat with the olive oil, the chopped parsley, the oregano, the rosemary, the cumin, salt, black pepper and the lemon juice. Cover it well and leave it for 1 night in the refrigerator to take on flavor. The next day, transfer the meat to a greased large baking tray, cover it with foil and bake it for 3-4 hours. At about hour 2-3 remove the foil and add the cleaned whole small potatoes together with the grated kefalotyri cheese, the olives and the chopped peppers. Pour in a cup of hot water, season with salt and black pepper, put the foil back on and return it to finish baking.